Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Group portrait of Los Angeles Times columnist Lee Shippey and Occidental College president Remsen D. Bird, standing, Bird's arm around Shippey's shoulders, and novelist Louis Dodge, poet Robert Frost, and poet Marshall Louis Mertins, seated on porch wall, Dodge holding cigar and hat, Frost holding book, all in suits and ties, outdoors with building in background Related to the article “Cheerful Note Sounds For Poets and Writers.” Los Angeles Times, 28 Sept. 1932: A2. The article states: … Robert Frost … was principal speaker yesterday at a meeting of novelists, poets, short-story writers and others who gathered at Occidental College and formed an organization to be known as the California Writers’ Guild … more than 150 persons attending … Louis Dodge … Lee Shippey … Marshall Louis Mertins … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Bird, Emsen [Remsen] D. Dr., Early Negs of Educator
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_0990 0990 ark:/21198/zz002dbc80
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Novelists, American--20th century Poets, American--20th century California Writers' Guild Shippey, Lee, 1884-1969 Occidental College Mertins, Louis, 1885- Bird, Remsen Du Bois, 1888- Dodge, Louis, 1870-1952 Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
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